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July 29, 2009

Cook Here and Now wins Best of the Bay!

Grazie mille to all the participants! Cook Here and Now just won the Editor's Pick: Best of the Bay award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

BEST COOKING CLUB FOR COOL KIDS

Cook Here and Now
is not just a statement, it's a newfangled take on the old-fashioned
potluck. This underground cooking and tasting club gathers for periodic
food-a-thons in a donated kitchen space, often the Zocalo furniture
store in Bayview. And while the movement has gained national attention
— last year CHN appeared in Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine
magazines, and it has inspired similar cooking clubs as far away as
Melbourne, Australia — locally the group has remained under the radar.(Which is just as well, because attendees are ferociously loyal,
and each event tends to fill the 40-or-so seats mere minutes after
being announced.) Attendees must sign up in advance and agree to
prepare part of the community meal based on a theme or ingredient. Then
they shop for ingredients, bring kitchen tools to the meet-up, and
spend nine hours cooking, chatting, drinking, eating, and cleaning —
all in the pursuit of one-upping each other with well-sourced
ingredients, cooking technique, and culinary wow.

-----------I'm inclined to agree - we've had great meals in terrific company over these past three years. Thanks to all who've participated, and passed on the word.Here's to many more!Marco Flavio